The explorer is used to view information on your BridgeChain. It provides details about the delegates that are active and on standby. It also provides information about all the addresses, transactions and blocks that are available. In summary, everything you need to know about your BridgeChain can be found in the explorer.

Having a BridgeChain is great, but you'll probably to interact with it and send out some of your genesis tokens. This will be required when forging with new delegate nodes (instead of auto-forging).

From your desktop wallet, go to Settings (the gear icon at the top-right) and choose “Manage Networks”.

Go to the New tab, enter your network name, input the URL of your BridgeChain node (including http://, leaving the trailing slash off the end), and then enable “Force”. The Force option means the desktop wallet will always connect to this peer when dealing with the Network, and won’t deal with any other peers. Once done, click on the Create button.

You are then presented with all the details for your Network. Click on the Save button here.

From the Networks (Wi-Fi Icon at the top-right), change to your newly created Network.

Now import your genesis passhprase which you was given when installing your node and click Import.

You will notice your wallet now has the pre-mined tokens already there and available. You can send those tokens to a new wallet straight away.

Generate a new wallet, and send some tokens from your genesis wallet.

You will notice the genesis wallet is no longer a cold wallet (a cold wallet has no public key), and our transaction was sent correctly.

Using the desktop wallet and our new address that we just set up, we will register as a delegate and set up a new node so we are forging external to our seed node. This section requires some command-line experience.

To conclude, we have just set up our first forging delegate node. This means we can start adding more nodes to the network, and gradually move away from the auto-forging setup that we have. Due to the performance of the machines we used in this case, it is very possible for the delegate node to stop syncing, or to struggle to keep up-to-date. In reality, the network needs a lot of relay nodes to ensure other nodes can continue to receive blocks. The reliability of the network increases with the total number of nodes.